QWERTY Keyboard vs. AZERTY keyboard

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The Similarties Keyboard invented by Christopher Latham Sholes

Typewriter!The QWERTY keyboard gets its name from the first six keys on the top left row: q-w-e-r-t-yThe design is based of the Sholes and Glidden typewriter designThe design was sold to Remington in 1873remains in use on electronic keyboards due to the network effect of a standard layout and a belief that alternatives fail to provide very significant advantageQWERTY keyboardIn 1874 Remington & Sons produced the first commercial typewriter, called the Remington Number 1. This typewriter was designed by Christopher Sholes and used the "QWERTY" keyboard we all use.Christopher Latham Sholes’ original prototypes had a problem with the bars colliding with each other and jamming. So the story goes that he arranged the keys with the most common letters in hard to reach spots, to slow typists down and try to avoid this problem.

QWERTY keyboardThe QWERTY keyboard is different from the Dvorak keyboard layoutThe layout of the Dvorak keyboard tries to minimize the distance traveled by the fingers. The layout also tries to make the typist alternate hands on consecutive letters as often as possible.

Name comes from the first six letters to appear on the first row of alphabetical keys.AZERTY layout appeared in France in the last decade of the 19th century as a variation on American QWERTY typewritersIn the beginning of the 20th century, the French “ZHJAY” layout, created by Albert Navarre, failed to break into the market for the simple reason that secretaries were already accustomed to the QWERTY and AZERTY layouts

AZERTY keyboardThe countries that us the French AZERTY keyboard are blue:

AZERTY layout is the normal for keyboards in France

AZERTY keyboardAZERTY keyboards differ from the QWERTY keyboard in that the Q and W keys have been interchanged with the A and Z keys. Another difference between QWERTY and AZERTY keyboard is that the M key on an AZERTY is to the left of the L key.

By: Katie WeberThe differencesThe first six letters of the QWERTY keyboard is Q-W-E-R-T-Y.The first six letters of the AZERTY keyboard is A-Z-E-R-T-Y.